Case Reports in Oncology (Sep 2015)

Adipsia in a Diabetes Insipidus Patient

  • Maria Conceição Pereira,
  • Margarida M. Vieira,
  • Joana Simões Pereira,
  • Duarte Salgado

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1159/000440611
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 3
pp. 385 – 388

Abstract

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Central diabetes insipidus is a very common disorder after brain surgery or/trauma or even in the presence of brain inflammatory diseases. Polyuria and polydipsia are the clinical markers, but sometimes clinical situations are presenting with no thirst. These are not frequent but are life-treating conditions. Diagnosis is not easy, and for this reason some cases are treated late. We describe here a very infrequent oncological case of dangerous adipsic diabetes insipidus in a young girl who survived.

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